Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.-Mark Twain This dissertation can bear only my name as a matter of record, but there are several individuals I would like to thank for their contributions to its completion. I am indebted first of all to Dr. Young Yun Kim, whose knowledge and guidance were instrumental to the study's conception and design. In addition to being an internationally-recognized scholar of intercultural communication, she is an immediate and nurturing mentor and friend. I also owe a debt to my committee members-Drs.

Sociocultural Adaptation Profiles of Ethnic Minority Senior High School Students in Mainland China: A Latent Class Analysis

“…Therefore, the research object of cross-cultural adaptation has gradually expanded to ethnic minority groups within a society, such as American Indians in Oklahoma [25], Tibetans in China [26], ethnic minorities in Hong Kong [27], and so forth. However, adults may elect to limit their contact with individuals from different cultural backgrounds, while ethnic minority youths who study in the mainstream school environment have less control over their exposure to the dominant culture [28]. In addition, ethnic minority youths are at a critical stage of forming their values and ethnic identities; therefore, except for academic achievement, the cross-cultural adaptation of ethnic minority youths in multiethnic schools has gradually attracted the attention of scholars [28][29][30][31].…”

“…A number of different models of cross-cultural adaptation have been proposed [28,32], and one of the most widely accepted is that developed by Ward et al [33]. They maintain that cross-cultural adaptation may be meaningfully divided into psychological (emotional/affective) and sociocultural (behavioral) adaptation dimensions.…”

Sojourner reentry: a grounded elaboration of the integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation

“…Traditionally, ITCCA has been applied to the international context to account for sojourner adaptation (see Pitts, 2009) or applied domestically to account for acculturation among nondominant members to the dominant culture (see McKay-Semmler & Kim, 2014). ITCCA may also provide insight into the transformative processes of reentry (Martin & Harrell, 2004).…”

Settlement experiences of Iranian migrants on humanitarian and non-humanitarian visas in Australia

“…While Berry's acculturation model (1997) is of great significance in examining the acculturation experiences of Iranian migrants, it does not provide us with full answers to the research questions proposed in this study (see Chapter 1: Introduction) as its main focus is on psychological transformation (Kim & McKay-Semmler, 2013). Kim's (1988Kim's ( , 1995Kim's ( , 2001) cross-cultural adaptation theory is an inclusive theory integrating and incorporating various other approaches and previous concepts and dichotomies (e.g., acculturation-assimilation, acculturation-enculturation) that have been a great source of confusion (Kim & McKay-Semmler, 2013;McKay-Semmler& Kim, 2014).…”

“…Thus, depending on the host society, the minority population is expected to conform to and adopt the values and norms of the host society which is referred to as host conformity pressure (Kim, 1995(Kim, , 2001. It is thought that societies that are more tolerant of diversity and multiculturalism place less pressure on the minority population than those societies that are less heterogeneous (McKay-Semmler & Kim, 2014). Notwithstanding this, the issue of conformity is a burden on the shoulders of the migrants rather than the majority group.…”